The incident, reportedly occurred on Friday morning at Orji, between the Orji fly over and Ama wire.
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It was gathered the IPOB members were waiting at Orji/Okigwe road Owerri Imo State to receive the corpse of a member Onyekachukwu Uzoma from Mbaise, who died at Enugu, when they clashed with the operatives.
The exchange of gunfire led to some members of the groups sustaining serious injuries, sources say.
Reacting to the development, the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said;
“When Imo IPOB family were waiting at Orji to receive the dead body of our member being conveyed from Enugu to Mbaise, they were shot at by the police operatives. Many of them sustaining injuries.
“The Nigerian police, Army and SARS started shooting sporadically at our IPOB members. Nigeria Army and Police have started once again pushing us to the wall. IPOB is not happy how Nigeria government are killing Biafrans and other Christians in Nigeria.
“We are warning Nigeria government and her security operatives to stop attacking IPOB because they will regret their actions soon.”
SP Orlando Ikeokwu, the State Police Public Relations Officer, denied gun shots were fired when contacted.
Here's what he said;
“MASSOB members mounted road block and then Police was trying to restore normalcy. They also attacked a team of policemen attached to Orji Division along Owerri/Okigwe Road by the Orji Flyover.
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“The hoodlums while trying to dispossess the policemen of their service rifles also inflicted machete wounds on the policemen. However, the attack was successfully repelled with arrests made, while some others ran away with various degree of injuries.”
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